Brisbane North and Sunshine Coast

Zone map

Brisbane North and Sunshine Coast service centres

Notes:

Estimated residential population as at 30/6/2006 based on Australian Bureau of Statistics 32350-0, population by age and sex, Australia. Release date 24/7/2007.

Brisbane North and Sunshine Coast zone data for the years 2007-08 through to 2008-09
	2007-08	2008-09
Intake
Intakes	13,786	15,779
Child concern reports	9,012	11,746
Notifications	4,774	4,033
Children subject to a child concern report	7,159	8,787
Children subject to a notification	4,164	3,595
Investigation and assessment
Admissions to assessment orders	471	400
Temporary assessment orders	232	205
Court assessment orders	239	195
Substantiations	1,907	1,468
In need of protection	932	990
Not in need of protection	975	478
Children subject to a substantiation	1,697	1,325
Ongoing intervention ^(a)
Total children subject to ongoing intervention	1,580	2,048
Intervention with parental agreement	368	746
Child protection orders (CPO)	1,253	1,302
Children subject to protective orders (CPO and CAO)	1,262	1,314
Children living away from home	1,246	1,261
Percentage of Indigenous children placed with kinship or Indigenous carers	42.3%	47.7%
Approved carer families ^(b)	762	791

Notes:

1. The definitions used for each indicator are identified in the relevant tables under Our performance.
(a) Figures are point in time, as at final day of reference period.
(b) From 31 August 2009, enhancements to the Integrated Client Management System (ICMS) took place, including an audit and cleansing of carer records. This included closing down those records where a carer was no longer caring for a child, or the approval was no longer valid. As a result, carer families data reported for 30 September 2009 and onwards are not comparable to previous years.